My wife and I recently went on a vacation to Aruba. Now this wasn’t our first time to the “One Happy Island” but it certainly was our first international trip during a pandemic. I could probably write a whole blog post on that alone but will possibly save that for another day.

One thing I always hated about vacations is that it would get me out of my cycling rhythm. In past vacations to Disney I would do some running (ugh) to help stay in the groove but most anywhere else my fitness would be put on the back burner for a week. A few months ago we did take a road trip to Florida to see some friends and I actually took my bike with me on that trip. I’d been to Sarasota countless times and this was the first time I would ride around the area. I didn’t go too crazy but it felt good to keep some sort of normal schedule. So when planning our Aruba trip I decided to look up if there were any bike shops on the island that rented bikes and low and behold there is one, Tri-Bike Aruba. As the name implies they are into more than just cycling, but thats all I cared about.

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